At ISTAT one gets to meet many very interesting people. Certainly among those is Bombardier’s Chet Fuller. The program is entering a crucial phase now as all the key parts come together. First flight is still planned for the year…
Another industry pioneer has left us. Gordon Autry, Founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Airways, passed away Saturday March 10, 2012 at his home on the Lazy-A Ranch, near Montrose Colorado. Here you can hear him (in March 2010) describe…
Airbus announced today its structural assembly of the first A350 XWB aft fuselage destined for the first flying A350 XWB (MSN1) has been completed at its manufacturing site in Hamburg. The fuselage section will now undergo its secondary interior structural…
The WTO Appeals Panel released its public version of the review of the original WTO Findings on the EU complaint about Boeing illegal subsidies. Both the European Union and the US Trade Representative claimed victory, as did Airbus and Boeing.…
Kingfisher Airlines is sinking fast. Consider: ATR turbo-prop orders have been canceled, all 38 of them; IATA has booted the airline out of its various services for non-payment and sinking financial condition; Staff isn’t being paid and as a result,…
The ongoing kerfuffle over the EU’s ETS is now starting to hurt in places the EU seems to have overlooked – in its own backyard. Below is a comment just released by Airbus. Could it be the only people who…